Lead Linguist with Hindi

This is a remote position.

Star 7 India is seeking a highly skilled and experienced (5+ years) native Hindi Lead Linguist to oversee and manage all aspects of Hindi language translation and localization.

The successful candidate will have extensive linguistic experience in Hindi language translation with a particular focus on UI and documentation, an in-depth understanding of cultural nuances, excellent leadership, and decision-making skills.

The position will interact with other localization teams (onsite and offsite) as well as global engineering and QA teams.

The role
The Hindi Lead Linguist is responsible for leading their linguistic teams to deliver a natural, world-class user experience in their native language. In addition to translating and reviewing content, the Lead Translation Linguist provides linguistic leadership, stakeholder management, and coaching services to their translation teams.

The Lead Linguist establishes terminology and style parameters for their respective language, motivates a linguistic team and instils pride in the language, initiates and drives terminology decisions, is able to influence a positive outcome to terminology discussions and shows strong leadership skills with a passion for their language.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

Translation and Localization:

•       Oversee and manage all Hindi translation projects, ensuring that translations align with brand tone, style guides, and target audience needs.

•       Work closely with project managers, translators and other stakeholders as necessary to define project requirements and ensure they are then implemented accordingly within the workflow.

•       Produces world class volume translated/reviewed/formatted files into target language in various Client formats.

•       Achieves daily productivity targets for all production tasks e.g translation, review, bug management as per the standards and throughputs required.

•       Demonstrates clear leadership skills and successfully leads, brings-up and mentors language team.

•       Provide feedback and conduct performance evaluations for team members.

•       Works collaboratively and responsively with cross-functional groups to ensure the process runs smoothly and on schedule. 

Quality Assurance:

•       Responsible for overall linguistic quality across the entire translation and reviewer network for target language.

•       Review Hindi translations to ensure grammatical accuracy, style and terminology adherence, clarity, and consistency.

•       Host regular check-in sessions with Translator network to coach, mentor, discuss translations, address quality issues and linguistic performance plan.

•       Creates, maintains, updates and drives style guides and automated terminology list documents and discussions internally, externally and with the client.

Cultural and Linguistic Expertise:

•    Provide expertise in understanding and addressing cultural nuances, idiomatic expressions, and region-specific language variations.

•      Act as the final point of decision making internally when there are disagreements within the team regarding translations, phrasing, or cultural choices.

Project Management:

•    Coordinate and manage translation timelines, resources, and budgets.

•    Make decisions about how to manage workload distribution and ensure deadlines are met without compromising the quality of the translation or localization.

Continuous Improvement:

•    Stay updated on the latest translation technologies, tools, and trends.

•    Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance translation workflows, tools, and processes.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Translation, Linguistics, Communication, or related field/equivalent experience.

Experience:

•    Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Hindi translation and localization of User Interface content and documentation.

•    At least 3 years of experience leading or managing a team of translators.

Language Proficiency:

•    Native-level fluency in Hindi.

•    Expert knowledge in the cultural, social, and linguistic nuances of Hindi-speaking regions.

•    Fluent in English (reading, writing, speaking).

Technical Skills:

•    Experience with translation management systems (TMS), CAT tools, and machine translation engines.

•    Demonstrated technical aptitude to learn new technologies.

Personal Attributes:

•    Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and manage a team effectively.

•    A proactive and problem-solving attitude, with a strong sense of responsibility and ownership.

•    Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

•    Strong understanding of Client/Vendor dynamics.

•    Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to make timely and informed linguistic decisions.

•    Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Benefits